如果这些传言可信，参议院小组已经明确表示否决公立保险机构，尽管瑞德将此事轻描淡写为一个副产品。
If those rumours are to be believed, the Senate panel has all but killed the public option, though Mr Reid downplayed this as mere sidelining.
任何的争议在很可能被局外者轻描淡写为仅仅是俄罗斯生活的一个不幸的事实而已，尤其是涉及尤科斯yukos的。
Any controversy is likely to be discounted by outside observers as an unfortunate fact of Russian life, particularly where Yukos is concerned.
一些错误看起来是无心之失——庞大的电子数据表中错移的一行或一列数据；还有一些无法解释的错误，杜克的团队轻描淡写地解释为“笔误”。
Some seemed careless — moving a row or a column over by one in a giant spreadsheet — while others seemed inexplicable. The Duke team shrugged them off as “clerical errors.”
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